Update, May 22, 2:20 p.m.: Police said Nicholas Dyll, who is accused of jumping into a woman’s car through the sun roof and attacking her, has been formally charged with assault.

Original post (posted May 20): A Dallas woman said the naked man who dived into her car through the sunroof Friday in Oak Cliff attacked her before police were able to stop him.

Witnesses said the man, identified in a police report as Nicholas Dyll, 23, first attacked a woman jogging with her baby, reports KDFW-TV (Channel 4).

The naked Dyll then dived into the second woman’s car at a stop sign in the 1400 block of South Zang Boulevard. The attack is not visible in video taken by nearby neighbor Marcus Payne but the woman is screaming as her car rolls into the wrong side of the street and eventually hits a pole.

“I couldn’t move; it’s like I was paralyzed with fear,” the victim told Channel 4. “It’s like a nightmare every time I close my eyes.”

Officers caught up with the car and stopped the man. The woman said her car sustained damage that will cost $3,000 to repair.

He was taken to a local hospital for evaluation but there have been no charges filed. The report describes Dyll’s condition as “excited delirium.” Police said they are still investigating.

Mitchell is now in Dallas County Jail on a capital murder charge. His bond has been set at $1 million.

Original post: Police are looking for the suspect in a fatal shooting of a 25-year-old man early Sunday morning in East Oak Cliff.

The suspect, Christopher Mitchell, 31, is wanted in the capital murder of Perry Sewell and is also accused of aggravated robbery, Senior Cpl. DeMarquis Black said.

The two were fighting over the keys to Sewell’s car in the parking lot of an apartment complex when Mitchell turned a semi-automatic handgun on Sewell and fired multiple shots at him, according to police documents.

Mitchell took Sewell’s keys and fled in the gray silver 1999 Ford Crown Victoria, according to the police report.

Perry was taken to Baylor Hospital and later pronounced dead.

A witness told police that Sewell and Mitchell had previously not not known one another before meeting at the apartment, but the witness had known both of them for about ten years and referred to Mitchell as “Scooter.”

Update at 3:30 p.m., May 30, by Tristan Hallman: Christopher Howard Beachum was booked into Dallas County jail on May 18. He is being held on a $510,000 bond for a capital murder charge and insufficient bond on a burglary of a habitation charge.

Update at 7:22 p.m. May 2, by Tristan Hallman: Beachum is being held in Lane County, Oregon, custody while awaiting extradition to Dallas County.

Update at 4:08 p.m. May 2: Dallas police say Christopher Howard Beachum was taken into custody today in Eugene, Oregon. More details to come.

Original item posted at 4:25 p.m. April 29: On March 18 Dallas police found 68-year-old Gerald Canepa dead inside his home at 1430 S. Montreal Avenue in Oak Cliff. At the time, Dallas PD said it “appears to be a homicide,” but wouldn’t confirm a cause of death — though some media outlets reported that he’d been stabbed to death.

Monday afternoon, Dallas police released the arrest warrant affidavit that says it was indeed a homicide: According to the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office, Canepa was strangled and stabbed multiple times. Police have also named a suspect, 27-year-old Christopher Howard Beachum, who remains at large. He faces a capital murder charge.

According to police, the two met on Craigslist. The affidavit says they exchanged emails in which “Suspect Beachum indicated that he was going to Complainant Canepa’s residence to engage in sexual intercourse with Complainant Canepa.” The emails continued until the early morning hours of March 15, police say, which is when Canepa was likely killed.

Police say that when he was found on March 18, Canepa was lying on his bed nude, stabbed to death, strangled. The living-room television was gone; “wiring was laying out,” says the affidavit. The DVD rack next to the television had been emptied. A laptop computer was gone; so too a desktop computer. His cellphone was gone too.

The witness who found the body told police Canepa lived alone and used Craigslist as a dating service. A search of Canepa’s phone records and emails revealed he’d been corresponding with Beachum, who lives in Addison.

In the days after the murder, police say, detectives discovered Beachum had pawned Kodak and Canon cameras that belonged to Canepa. And he sold some DVDs to the Entertainmart near the Galleria on Alpha Road.

Based on those emails and cell-phone tower records, police say, they believe “Beachum is the last person to be with Canepa when he was alive.”

A San Antonio man who says he was being paid to drive to Dallas, pick up unknown cargo, and drive back to San Antonio was arrested last week after police found 15 AK-47-type firearms in his car.

Jesus Gonzales, 24, was stopped in Oak Cliff for not wearing a seat belt. During the traffic stop Gonzalez gave permission to search his vehicle where police found the guns in the trunk, almost all of which were shrink-wrapped.

Police also determined that Gonzalez did not have a valid drivers license and is in the country illegally.

In later questioning, Gonzalez told police he was being paid to drive to Dallas and meet up with another person. That person loaded unknown cargo into his vehicle and told Gonzales drive back to San Antonio and await further instructions.

Gonzales was officially charged with being an illegal immigrant in possession of firearms. He is being held as the case is pending and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail and a fine of $250,000.

Dallas police are investigating alcohol as a factor in an Oak Cliff car crash that killed two when a driver rear-ended an SUV carrying five people, reports KDFW-TV (Fox 4).

According to a police report, a GMC Terrain was stopped at a red light on the 3700 block of W. Davis St. shortly before midnight on Sunday. The suspect, driving a Hyundai Santa Fe, ran a red light and smashed into the GMC carrying five people, witnesses told Fox 4.

Witnesses said one of the passengers in the GMC was a pregnant woman, who they said had her leg severed. Several ambulances were called to the scene for the other victims.

According to the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s office, the two deceased victims are John Wilkins, 55, and Jeanette Wilkins, 57.

Police questioned the driver of the Hyundai, and “detected the strong odor of alcohol coming from the suspect,” according to a police report. The man told police he had had two beers with a friend earlier in the day. His wrist was injured and was treated at Baylor University Medical Center.

The two adults who were injured have been identified as Christina Mayes, the driver and Dalronshay Mayes. The child who was treated at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas has not been named.

Police identified the driver as Aaron Henry, 25. He has been charged with intoxication assault and intoxication manslaughter.

Dallas police say the owner of the dog is no longer a suspect in the case.

According to investigators, Dallas Animal Services responded to the home near Interstate 35E and West Saner Avenue last Tuesday to pick up puppies from an unrelated dog. The animal services employee noticed the pug and took it to a pug rescue shelter to be treated. It’s currently alive.

Investigators learned that the pug was covered in axle grease by the husband to treat mange. The cause of the stomach laceration is unknown.

Original entry:

An animal control worker reportedly took an injured black pug to Dallas Animal Services on North Westmoreland Road near Interstate 30 last week. No arrests have been reported in the animal cruelty case.

Dallas police are investigating an animal cruelty case in which a dog was found in Oak Cliff with a cut across its abdomen and motor oil poured on its fur, a police report said.

It appears the black pug was still alive when an animal control worker responded to the scene near Interstate 35E and West Saner Avenue last Tuesday. The dog’s condition as of today is unknown and we’re seeking an update.

The animal control worker who responded to the house “observed a black pug which had suffered a laceration across its abdomen, which had become infected and infested with maggots,” the report said. She “also observed that the animal had motor oil poured over its furs for reasons unknown.”

The animal control employee took the dog to Dallas Animal Services at 1818 North Westmoreland Road.

The report said that the dog’s owner was identified and is a suspect in the case. But no arrests have been reported as of this posting

This is the latest in string of ugly animal cruelty cases reported in Dallas and surrounding areas this year. There was Justice, a Lab-Terrier found burned in Pleasant Grove. The dog died days later and several men face felony charges in that case.